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Honestly, when I saw "passkeys," my first thought was "vendor lockin." Google and GitHub did it with SSO using OAuth, and they're doing it again with passkeys.
Honestly, this is a "surprised Pikachu" moment for me. The closer you get to convenience, the more the big players will want to lock you in:
Passwords are hard to lock down because it's easy to switch to something else.